Today was way better than my day-before-today (it could hardly have been worse :); drove down to Vista, had a productive meeting, and then booked back in the afternoon in time tosee Morning Lightwith Meg. Did not watch any basketball; no spoilers please, I'm a Tivo guy.

I am super excited about today because driving home yesterday I got this idea for a new web service… I’m looking forward to cranking on it today. Stay tuned for more; I am from the "do it then talk about it" school of programming :)

Ridiculously bad business story of the weekmonth year: Google: Beware the eBay curse. There are so many problems here, it is hard to know where to start. First, Google and eBay in no way have similar business models. Second, the premise that eBay suffered because of bad acquisitions is flawed; PayPal was a massive success, and while Skype hasn't generated a lot of revenue, it hasn't been a failure either. And the "advice" is horrible; buy Twitter? Well maybe, but there's no revenue there either. Get better at acquisitions? Like, YouTube? What is this advice, exactly? This is when you realize that journalism students were not necessarily the smartest people in their class.

Wow, a new Tesla. I think it's beautiful. And their target price is $50,000! Of course, with deliveries starting in 2011, a lot may happen. They are planning to ship 20,000 of these a year... Apparently these pictures were leaked and then there was an official announcement. The Tesla blog has more, too. To keep this in perspective, with all the hype about electric cars and all, Tesla is currently the only company shipping all-electric cars. So they do have some credibility...

An impending crisis? How peak water would reshape civilization... "If you think peak oil is a big deal, then just wait until the peak water crisis is in full swing. Experts say that in many areas aquifers and rivers are starting to run dry as human consumption and other factors are straining one of our most essential resources: fresh water." This has been a theme for Ottmar Liebert for some time, and I'm hearing it more and more...